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thanks for the reminder
I am getting very curious to see if the Spurs pull off any trade(s) before the deadline. Before I was thinking they would make some kind of move albeit last minute but a move non the less but as time approaches I'm thinking nothing may transpire. I do think most of the reports are smoke screen plays that the Spurs are using as a ploy but this economic turmoil may change the game for the Spurs franchise now and the near future.
I still trust there is a move in the works ( truly expect Udoka to be moved) but it's significance may be the equilvilent of watching snails mate.
I'm anxious just to see what transpires at the end of the deadline, moves will be made last minute by a number of teams or atleast attempts. What do you think?
thanks for the reminder
theres trade talk
but really, if we make any trade it better be a big, we don't NEED anything else
I'm more interested to see how pissed people are when the Spurs don't make a move, or make a relatively minor one (as you say, dumping Udoka).
I'm just impatient waiting to see what happens
dumping Udoka would be huge.
He's just dead weight.
Certainly no one is going to complain if Udoka could be used in a trade that brought back somebody better, but how would just dumping the guy be huge? He's not hurting anything. Cheap contract, not any kind of an at ude problem. He's just end of the bench roster fodder that doesn't help or hurt anything. Again, got no beef if the Spurs can turn him in to something better, but I don't think anyone in the F.O. is saying "if we could just get rid of Ime"........
The Spurs always listen and always look for an opportunity around trade time. What makes this trade deadline different is that there are teams looking to fire sale some talent the Spurs wouldn't otherwise have a shot at landing.
Not to mention, not having enough of the pieces to give up to get some of that talent.
do the spurs have anymore Scola like players that they would be willing to trade???
They have rights to Splitter.
Tiago Splitter, but the Spurs aren't going to give him up unless the Rockets will cough up someone who will at least come to San Antonio for a margarita before vanishing forever.
Heavy dead weight.
POSTED: Feb. 18 -- 7:24 p.m. ET
Camby
J.A. Adande: The chances of Marcus Camby going to Cleveland have dropped because it will take a greater lure than Wally Szczerbiak's expiring contract for the Clippers to send Camby eastward. The Clippers say they aren't in salary dump mode, and that any deal would have to improve their team. Camby for Szczerbiak doesn't fit that category.
Now if Cleveland or any other team wanted to take Chris Kaman's contract off their hands, that would get the Clippers interested.
Landing Kaman would be nice....but it won't happen.
Manu and TP for Shaq... straight up...
so we can enjoy Shaq for 2 years at most.....
And the best part is, the Spurs won't have anyone at the meaningless PG position, and stress taken off who starts at the SF...
FOR 2 YEARS!!!
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Ain't nothing wrong with that...
Spurs/Nuggets WCF? It could happen, I think...
Kaman or Nocioni would be the ones of my choice...
http://www.nba.com/2009/news/02/18/b...ade/index.html
Aldridge: Bulls to land Salmons, Miller for Nocioni, Gooden
By David Aldridge, TNT analyst
Posted Feb 18 2009 7:34PM
The Sacramento Kings are the latest NBA team to engage in cost-cutting moves that will pare money from the team's books next season.
The Kings agreed on Wednesday to a trade that sends forward John Salmons and center Brad Miller to the Chicago Bulls in exchange for forwards Drew Gooden and Andres Nocioni, according to league sources. The deal will reduce Sacramento's obligations next season, saving the Kings millions on the salary cap and keeping them well under any potential luxury tax payments. Gooden, making $7.15 million this season, will likely come off the team's cap after this year, and now, the team is free of the $5.4 million due to Salmons in 2009 and the $12 million due to Miller in '09.
This will be Miller's second go-round in Chicago; he played two-plus seasons in Chicago after being traded from Charlotte in 2000 before being dealt to Indiana in a trade that also sent Ron Artest to the Pacers in exchange for Jalen Rose.
Sacramento will absorb the remaining four years and $28.4 million on Nocioni's contract, but Nocioni's contract actually goes down after next season, when he's scheduled to make $7.5 million, to $6.8 million in 2010 and $6.6 million in 2011 before going back up to $7.5 million in the final season -- a season that will be the Kings' option to pick up.
If Manu is out for the year, the team should NOT(!) do much at the deadline. That doesn't mean to ignore a good deal to be had if it's out there. But you don't gut the team or give up anything of value at that point.
Without a healthy Manu, there is not a deal out there that would put this team over the Lakers in the West. There are deals that could be made IN ADDITION to Manu, but no deals that would serve as a subs ute.
It would suck to become an also-ran in what has been one of Duncan's finest years, but you're better off re-gearing for next fall than making a desperation move that wouldn't change the balance of power anyways.
cap space != nothing. this isn't baseball, there is a reason that A LOT of teams trade FOR expiring contracts.
I just got an e-mail from a buddy who is peripherally connected to the Bobcats. He insists that Raja Bell is seriously being shopped, and that the Spurs have expressed interest. That doesn't mean much, I know. But I thought Bell was off the market, and that much apparently isn't true.
All these trade rumors are long shots, but he would be a good addition IMO.
Bell > Finley + Udoka combined
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